Thu 26 Sep 2019

19:30 - 21:00

From the National Gallery’s Collection in 1861 to Hardy’s exploration of artistic themes in his poetry and prose. The environment in which Hardy grew up inspired art; both his isolated, heathland home and the surrounding hills, which fostered childhood drawings and later poems. There are many paintings from those early days of the National Gallery which we know Hardy studied, through his references to those works in his novels short stories and poems.

This talk by Luke Rake will be held at Kingston Maurward College and looks at the development of Hardy’s work as both documentary recording of the world and the interpretation of landscape through the eyes of Tess.